Makenie will only me about 1 month old when.....

She becomes a M&M!!!!!!! This is seriously cute and perfect for a tiny baby! I am not interested in putting her in something that goes around her face though. So I am going to make it! I am now on the hunt for a yellow sleeper sack or maybe I will just get a white one and we can dye it yellow and get a little yellow cap to match!

Makenzie's Baby BOWtique!

Pretty Flower from Sweet Love & Sugar Britches (a store here in RR)
My first wired ribbon bow!
Korkerscrew Bows!!! I LOVE THESE!
Flower peddle bows...way fun!
Another Korkerscrew Bow
Flat tuxedo bow clips
More flat tuxedo bows, the one in the middle is a triple tuxedo bow!
Minnesota Vikings bow, and polka dot bow
Yellow flower and Texas Tech football flower bows!Black and white traditional bow and Halloween traditional bow
This is how I hang all these bows up! Two long pieces of ribbon attacked to a wooden flower craft. I am going to make one for flower with the same length of ribbon on it for the few bows I still have left to make in the next few days. I have enjoyed this project a lot the last few days. It has been fun and a money saver for sure!

Day 1 of Baby Bow Extravaganza!

I still have 9 good fingers! The pointer finger on my right had was sacrificed tonight...I have a huge blister to prove it :o(

These are called 'Tuxedo Bows" and by the end of this extravaganza I will be a pro! The challenge here is that they are so small! I love that they are just simple and I can make them in a ton of different colors and patterns.

This is a light purple and light pink silk daisy that I cut the stem off of and just glued the flower peddles back together. After that dried I added the rhinestone and "M" button respectively. The flowers were sadly not on sale at Hobby Lobby this week so these (and the orange one) were $1.68 each.

These two flowers are a bit different than the two above. They were in the scrapbooking section of Hobby Lobby and were really just embellished paper brads. They were $2.99 for both flowers. The headband is one that we had in my bathroom but that is what a Gaspy hat and headband looks like, kind of a crochet pattern but they are stretchy also. Next to these flowers was a bucket that was $9.99 and it was full of daisy peddles that I could mix and match to make more Gaspy flowers. That is going to be my next purchase for bows when I gear up for round two of bow making.....that will not be for a while after Makenzie comes and I know more of what she likes and will put up with on her head!

Makenzie is going to looooooove Halloween just as much as me! We are going to have a Halloween week!!!

I made 3 Halloween little hair clips. The first is a girly ghost with googly eyes! The second is a clip that says 'Halloween', and the third is just orange with a spider web and spider and 2 baby candy corns! The strip of ribbon next to it is going to be a pacifier clip. I need to get the suspender clip and a velcro dot. The clips were all pretty easy to make and they cost way less than the $5.00 a pair I saw this week at a baby boutique. The pacifier clip was super simple and easy to make, I had the button pieces left over in the bag and just hot glued them on a ribbon. My thought on this is that, even though I glued the pieces on very carefully and securely they could still fall off with the extra movement.

This is the flower that I made for the Gaspy hat or headband we got. I just bought a black headband and cap and a white headband and cap for right now. All of the flowers (or clips for that matter) clip onto the band or hat and are way fun and too cute!

PS: I am aware that all of this hoopla is just for show and will only last about as long as the pictures can be taken but at least I'm prepared for that!

Birth Announcement Choices

I was thinking that it would be a good idea to go ahead and pick out a birth announcement and get it designed ahead of time. I know time will fly but if I can get this one thing designed (hint*sally*hint) and possibly get a person in charge of this (*hint*emily, melissa, mom*hint*) then maybe they will get out before Christmas.




I found these 12 ideas and sent them to Alex. He thinks about these things for a while so we will see which one he likes most, but what do you think?

Does It Get Any Cuter Than This?

I have a new project that might get me through the next 3 weeks. (i had a crappy day...too many emotions so i needed to find something to occupy my time for Alex's sake and the sake of other around me) I am going to go to Hobby Lobby later today and go shopping! I think I can make all of these bows for $25.00 or less.....maybe wishful thinking but thats the goal! I'll update you soon on any potential progress.

You know your almost done being pregnant when....

1. You can justify getting out the chips and dip at 9pm.

2. When people say please wait to have your baby until you leave the restaraunt.

3. When you husband starts counting down the days until he will be able to "get it" again.

4. Peeing in a cup mostly means peeing on your hand.

5. u kick everything on the floor into a pile because you cant bend over to get it

6. or cant reach your legs in a bathtub to shave

7. People check your finger for a ring, and when you're not wearing one because your fingers are too swollen to do so, you want to flip them the bird for giving you that "oh my goodness, another one" look.

8.rolling over at night requires a crane lift and a LOT of groaning.

9.when you decide to just go ahead and EAT the ice cream, what do you have to lose?

10.When the people at work are discussing who among them will be delivering your baby because you look like you are literally about to pop.

11.When people at work see you and say "YOU'RE STILL HERE????!!!"

12.When you laugh at the scale because the # on it is just ridiculous and you don't care.

13.The only mobility you have is to lean back..no other direction seems to work.

14. you long to be able to see "down there" to know how bad it is.

15. when you go to wipe.. you have to build up momentum to reach that far

16. when you go out of the house without a shower, still in your t-shirt and shorts you wore to bed, no make-up and sunglasses to cover the circles under your eyes and you don't care because again you are just proud of yourself for getting out of bed.

17.when sitting down requires you to open your legs.

18. when your belly hangs out the bottom of your maternity shirts,

19. when you feel proud of yourself when you finally figure out how to bend to put pants on.

20. When you go through almost an entire roll of toilet paper in 2 days.

21.When you spend so much time at the dr.'s office that you know all the office gossip

22.When you wish you could find a way to sleep that didn't require a million pillows and the fan on the highest mode it can go.

23.When you can feel your baby move in your pelvis, ribs and both hips at one time.

24.When you just get down on all fours to pick something up because you know there is no way you are ever going to be able to bend over and get it then wonder how you are going to get back up.

25. When you can figure out which body part it is that is projecting out of your belly just by feeling it for a second.

I wish i could say that this was a joke but every single on of these things are true and part of my life on a regular basis. Life is what it is these days and sometimes its just not classy, lady like, or pretty. Even with all these crazy things happening I love this little peanut and am so excited for her arrival.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

I know its only September but....

Alex found these somewhere and they are toooooooo cute!